slackware installation

[gore]

Originally posted here by djscribble
Thank you for pointing out the error of some of my thinking, and i did not mean for my replies to be attacks against you either nor did i mean for you to almost seem to take it personally. however i do have some follow-up questions...

Not really so much I took it personally, but more of, I was pissy.

Then why do they make their own port of something? wouldn't it make sense to compile the original from source if it is more secure rather than do something weird in the porting?

Not sure, I don't make distros. Been wondering the same thing.

then why would someone want to learn linux and not just purchase MAC's

The price of a decent Mac would get me a high end PC and a Gucci outfit.

Sarcasm Noted, but it is not installed by default and iirc, it is the same way with slackware

With all Linux distros it's optional. X isn't needed with Mandrake SUSE, Slackware Free BSD or Unix in general. SUSE has a lot of tools. Ask some of the people here who work in high end areas like the Horse 13, he uses Slackware and SUSE, I changed him form redhat. Once you learn, you really don't need to keep on going, and it's faster to just use YAST. If I need to make a change, I can do it with or without YAST, with or without X, and either way it works, but speed is nice.

then what is the point of using linux in the first place, and second of all, then why not use windows or a mac.... furthermore, if someone is looking to impliment 30 or so pc's running slackware, wouldn't that be a hint that this person MAY actually care how they work (and if someone is even incharge of the implimentation decision in the first place, can they afford to not care how their stuff works)

You don't need to know how things work for Slackware or Gentoo. That's just a cmmon majority who've decided it's hard. I don't go with that. And for the other stuff, again, Mac and windows are **** for servers. And some peopel such as myself like Unix in general. I keep two boxes running Windows for things at school, and both dual boot with Linux or BSD.

[Dr-Peppa]

If I was you, I would try Free-/Net- or OpenBSD. I think they are very well documented and you can learn something about Linux/Unix. Last week I installed FreeBSD to try it out and I think its great.